Chemotherapy and radiation are not the only options for cancer patients, contrary to Big Pharma’s belief (and goal). For success stories and more information, I recommend ChrisBeatCancer.com and The Truth about Cancer (you can also click on the picture below to watch the first two episodes of this AMAZING documentary from The Truth about Cancer for FREE).

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Problems with coordination and movement, including problems with posture, walking, or holding objects

Weakness that affects one side of the body or the body as a whole

Paralysis of different parts of the body. This can range from one side of the body to a smaller area like the muscles in the face.

Seizures

Changes in taste and smell

Difficulty swallowing

Changes in the functioning of organs. This can include the following:

Constipation (talked about below)

Incontinence, which is not being able to control the flow of urine

Impotence, which is being unable to get or maintain an erection

Damage to the nerves from treatment

Peripheral neuropathy, a condition caused by damage or irritation to the peripheral nerves.

ORGAN DAMAGE

Organ damage caused by chemotherapy can cause long-term damage. Organs that are usually affected are the heart (talked about above), the lungs, the liver, and the kidneys.

The Heart:

See ‘Toxic to your Heart’ above.

The Lungs:

Lung toxicity occurs with some chemotherapy treatments. The damage may include inflammation and/or scarring.

This reduces the amount of oxygen you can absorb and reduces the amount of air you can breathe.

Common symptoms of lung damage include:

Breathing problems

Coughing

Pneumonia

The Liver:

From the University of New Mexico, “Chemotherapy drugs are toxins and may cause liver damage. The liver serves many vital functions in the body; the most important is to filter toxic substances from the blood. If there are more toxins coming in than the liver can deal with, liver damage will result. Liver damage can be a very serious condition.”

Symptoms of liver damage include:

Dark urine

Yellowing of your eyes or skin

Swelling or pain in your abdomen

Extreme fatigue

The Kidneys:

The kidneys break down and try to remove chemo drugs from the body. When the drugs break down, they make products that can damage cells in the kidneys and bladder.

Signs of kidney damage include:

Decreased urine flow

Bladder irritation and bleeding

Swelling in hands, feet, or other areas

Headache

Nausea/Vomiting

Headache

Change in urine color

Burning sensation while urinating

Feeling weak

INFERTILITY

Men

Chemotherapy drugs can reduce the number of sperm cells and their ability to move which can cause temporary or permanent damage. The side effects from chemo also create difficulty in getting or keeping an erection. Birth defects can also occur because damage to the chromosomes in the sperm is caused by many chemotherapy drugs.

Women

Infertility in women is a result of damage to the ovaries. The result of infertility occurring and the length of time it lasts (temporary or permanent) depends on factors such as the type of chemo drugs used, the dosage of those drugs, and the woman’s age.

MUSCLE LOSS

During advanced stages of cancer and due to the side effects of chemo (like nausea, loss of appetite, and vomiting which are talked about in Part 1), cancer anorexia-cachexia syndrome (also referred to as cachexia) may develop. This is when muscle and fat are quickly lost.

Because chemotherapy causes loss of appetite, nausea, and vomiting, malnutrition is a result (also contributing to muscle loss).

CONSTIPATION/DIARRHEA

For constipation, eat lots of fruits and vegetables. Fiber and water will help to manage it. Keep in mind that too much fiber and not enough water can make the constipation worse, so it’s important to drink lots of HEALTHY fluids.

For diarrhea, eat foods higher in potassium but don’t drink less water, in fact you need to drink more than normally because you’re losing more fluid.

DECREASED IMMUNE FUNCTION

From ChrisBeatCancer.com, “A recent study published in Breast Cancer Research found that chemotherapy causes long-term immune system damage, reducing levels of key immune cells in breast cancer patients for at least nine months after treatment, leaving them vulnerable to potentially life-threatening viral and bacterial infections.” You can view this study here or here.

The American Cancer Society tells us treatment weakens your body’s immune system. It does this by negatively affecting the blood cells that protect us from getting diseases. Because of how chemotherapy drugs affect your immune system, your body can’t fight infection, foreign substances, and disease as well as a healthy person’s immune system can.

So….here’s where common sense comes in…

If chemo makes it to where your body can’t really fight infection, foreign substances, and disease….and that’s exactly what cancer is….I don’t know, shouldn’t we be increasing the body’s immune function so it can do what it naturally does, kill cancer, not decrease its ability…? Just putting that out there…

INTERNAL BLEEDING

Chemotherapy can cause platelet counts to drop. Platelets are blood cells that make your blood clot. A low platelet count is called thrombocytopenia.

If platelets get too low, serious internal bleeding can occur.

The normal range for platelet counts is between 150,000 – 450,000/cubic millimeter.

Some signs that your platelet count is low include:

Bruising easily

Bruises that don’t go away

Heavy or longer menstrual periods

Bleeding longer than usual after minor cuts or scrapes

Bleeding gums

Nose bleeds

Besides these internal damages (and the physical changes) that occur because of chemotherapy, chemo also has a low success rate (which you can read about in Part 1) and causes secondary cancers (which you can read about in my article, Is Your Chemo Actually Causing Cancer?).

It’s amazing, in a bad way, how chemotherapy drugs create such extensive damage to a person’s body.

And it’s incredible (also in a bad way) that we are still using the same treatment as we were 45 years ago, since Nixon declared the “war on cancer”. You’d think after the trillions of $$$ that have gone into “cancer research” we would have something with a slightly higher success rate than less than 5%.

Anyway, rant over 🙂

My goal is to inform everyone with the facts so they are able to decide, without pressure from an oncologist (or anyone else for that matter), what treatment, conventional or nutritional, they think is best.

Hi! I'm Serena. I'm a woman who loves God, my family, and living in the mountains. I am dedicated to encouraging healthy lifestyles, supporting people with cancer, and helping everyone increase their faith and strength.